Grandma Dees Pound Cake Recipes

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer until soft and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, about 2 minutes. Gradually add in sugar on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until the yellow disappears from the previous one.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl. Add sour cream to the creamed butter mixture alternately with the flour, ending with sour cream. Beat in vanilla and almond extract just until combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar.

GRANDMA'S TRADITIONAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Start with a cold oven. Do not preheat!
• Cream together butter, margarine, shortening and sugar in a large mixing bowl until creamy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Mix together flour and baking powder; add to batter alternately with milk and vanilla.
• Pour into a well greased and floured Bundt pan. Be sure to grease all the way to the top of the pan and in center to ensure it doesn't stick coming out of the pan.
• Put into a cold oven and set at 325 degrees F.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Check for doneness; bake up to 15 additional minutes if needed.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes before inverting pan.

GRANDMA DEE'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease & flour a 9 inch springform pan. Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and mace in a small bowl to blend. Beat egg whites with mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form; set aside. Beat butter in another large bowl with mixer on medium speed until creamy. Gradually beat in sugar, and then egg yolks until blended. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Gently fold in egg white with a spatula. Pour into a prepared pan.
• 2. Bake 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hrs until tooth pick inserted into cake center comes out clean, cake is raised in middle & top is slightly cracked. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes before removing pan sides. Cool completely before frosting top and sides.
• 3. Frosting - beat butter & chocolate with mixer in a medium to blend. On low speed beat sugar, (mixture is crumbly) add vanilla & milk: beat until smooth and spreadable (if too thick, beat in more milk 1 tsp. at a time). Frost cake and enjoy.

GRANDMOTHER PAUL'S SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325.
• Cream butter and sugar together with your heavy-duty mixer.
• Add the sour cream and mix thoroughly.
• Sift baking soda and flour together.
• Add the flour to the creamed mixture, alternating with one egg at a time (about 1/2 cup of flour each time).
• Mix well after each addition.
• Add the vanilla and mix well.
• Spoon the mixture into a well greased and floured 10 inch tube or bundt pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in cake tests COMPLETELY clean.
• Let cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Invert cake on wire rack, removing from pan and let cool completely.
• Frost as desired (powdered sugar glaze is good) or leave plain and garnish with fresh berried and freshly whipped cream.

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Mix flour and baking powder; set aside. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each until blended. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until blended.
• Pour into 12-cup fluted tube or 10-inch tube pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 min. Loosen cake from sides of pan with knife. Invert cake onto wire rack; gently remove pan. Cool cake completely.

MY GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• (I use self rising flour and it turns out as well. But my grandmother baked this for her children so its a very old recipe.) Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at time.
• Mix vanilla with milk and add to creamed mixture.
• Mix real good,then use a wooded spoon and stir real good.
• Put in tube pan.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• Remove from over and let cool.

GREAT-GRANDMA ELECTRA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Spray a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with cooking spray. Place oven rack on the lowest level.
• Beat sugar, butter, and cream cheese together until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until smooth.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl and stir into the batter. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 30 minutes.